Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.
226272001
Icon painted with egg-tempera on gessoed linen on pine panel; background gesso worked in relief, originally silvered. Subject: St George and the youth of Mytilene. St George in armour, haloed, on white horse, moving right across rocky ground, reins in left hand, spear in right; behind him is the youth of Mytilene who was rescued by St George from his Saracen captors as he offered them a glass of wine. On reverse, patriarchal cross painted in red. Crusader? Detail of bottom edge showing layered construction of border frame.
© The Trustees of the British Museum
To license images for charged-for journals and publications, and other commercial uses, please contact British Museum Images.
Contact BM images
You are permitted to use images from the British Museum website subject to our terms of use.
The image will be released to you under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. You can read more about the British Museum and Creative Commons here.
If you cannot see an image that you want on the British Museum website, you can order new photography from us.
Order new image